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  [### GENED 1043. American Dreams Made in Hollywood

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

 **Year offered:**  2023 

 

 Day/Time MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM Instructor TBA Is the so-called American dream dead? The notion once essentialized the grand promise of a better, fuller, and richer life. At the present moment, however, it seems to have lost its evocative power as a collective myth. In a time... 

 

   [### German 150. Under Surveillance: Media, Security, and the Loss of Privacy

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

 **Year offered:**  2024 

 

 Day/Time M 12:45PM - 2:45PM Instructor TBA With a camera positioned at the entrance to the director’s factory, Louis Lumière’s famous early film of 1895, La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon, captured workers as they left for the day. Today, surveillance practices have... 

 

   [### German 154. The Frankfurt School on Film and Mass Culture

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

 **Year offered:**  2023 

 

 Day/Time T 12:45PM - 2:45PM Instructor TBA This seminar considers the Frankfurt School's deliberations on film, radio, television, and mass culture. We will devote the majority of the course to three seminal figures: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and T. W. Adorno... 

 

   [### German 159. 100 Years of Queer German Cinema

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

 **Year offered:**  2025 

 

 Instructor Dymek Date/Time W 12:00 - 2:45 pm German Queer cinema played a pivotal role in the emergence of LGBTQ+ representation on celluloid. We’ll delve into the groundbreaking contributions of German filmmakers, exemplified by productions like Richard Oswald’s seminal... 

 

   [### German 194. Public Urban Media

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

 **Year offered:**  2023 

 

 Day/Time Th 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm Instructor Struck The public is where we see and meet others or avoid them—on squares, in the subway, in cafés… But how are these places constructed that we necessarily inhabit? What do they allow for, and what do they prevent? What about the... 

 

   [### Scandinavian 55. One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

 **Year offered:**  2023 

 

 Day/Time M 12:00–2:45pm, W 12:00–1:15pm Instructor Broomé This course explores Scandinavian cinema from the pioneers of the silent era to the globally successful hit films of the present day. Students will trace the development of Scandinavian cinema through the films of... 

 

   [### Swedish 10a. Beginning Swedish Language and Literature

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

 **Year offered:**  2022 

 

 Day/Time M-Th 9:00-10:15am Instructor Broomé A basic course focusing on listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. During fall term, pronunciation and listening comprehension will be emphasized, as well as regular writing assignments. Literary, film, music and other...